Sponsor a Student

Sponsoring a student not only provides support for their education, but also covers living expenses that ensure that they have the best possible opportunity for success. Your support includes:

Housing in our IBSH home including full time support staff.

All educational fees, materials & stationery.

Food, water, electricity and all other utilities.

Access to communication devices.

Assisting to find gainful employment after they graduate from university.

The total cost per year to sponsor one of our children is $2,500 AUD. This money is spent on everything needed to support the orphaned child in their transition from kind hearted teenager to university educated young adult.

Your sponsorship money is so very important to us and will make such a different in the child’s life. We want you to be part of this journey along with us. We will therefore provide you with:

Details about your student and their course

Half yearly reports from the children and IBSH

Nepal

Purna Marasini

Purna is from a place near Pokhara called Rastra Bank Chowk. He had a miserable family background. His mother died when he was just eight years old. After his mother’s death, his father stopped caring for him. He then remarried, left home and never contacted Purna again. He was living with his grandmother, who was very old and struggling with poverty by selling cigarettes and biscuits in the street.
Purna had to work from a young age in order to survive. He served tea to the officers at government offices and worked in hotels. Although he was eager to go to school, he was not able to, due to his financial situation. Purna is currently supported under IBSH and staying at Namaste Children’s House. He is doing his higher study together with his other friends and preparing to go to University.

Saraswoti Pokheral

There were waves of tragedy that swept the lives of Saraswoti before she came to Namaste Children’s House. Due to lack of treatment and malnutrition, her mother died shortly after giving
birth to her younger sister Nandakali. Their father remarried, but his new wife was mentally ill and the family was not properly cared for by either of them. Their stepmother gave birth to a son, and after a landslide destroyed their property, they were all forced to leave. Their new home was a one room hut which they shared with cattle. They had nothing to eat and were receiving food and clothing from other villagers. As they could not be cared for, their father sent the three oldest sisters, including Saraswoti, to Kathmandu to work. She was working in a hotel when she was rescued by Namaste Children’s House.
Saraswoti is a role model for all of the children at orphanage. She is currently completing class 11 taking science as a major under the support of IBSH. She wants to be a social worker in the future and wants to help other poor children who are having the same problem which she has come through.

Sumitra B.K.

Sumitra and Moti are sisters from a remote village in Kaski, Nepal. Their father left their mother when she was pregnant with Moti, and the shock permanently affected her. Mentally unstable, she went to go live with her brother and her parents. All in the same hut, the living situation was cramped, food was scarce, and they did not have enough clothing to stay warm on cold nights. CEWEK, a social organization working around her village, put an application to the Children Welfare Board Kaski and Sumitra was rescued by Namaste Children’s House along with her little sister Moiti.
She is currently staying at NCH under the support of IBSH and doing year 11. She is very hardworking and will go to University after she finishes her higher studies.

Sujata Gauchan

When Sujata was four years old, her parents went away, leaving her in the care of her old grandmother. No one knows where her parents went, or why they left Sujata and her siblings. Living with her grandmother was difficult because her grandmother worked all day as a wash woman for a hotel. When not at school, Sujata would be playing in the streets outside of the hotel, waiting for her grandmother to get done with work. She often would wait for hours with no nothing to eat or drink. They lived in a small rented room and did not have enough money to buy basic necessities such as proper food or clothing. Sujata and her grandmother were living near to Namaste Children’s House and were encouraged by neighbors to put in an application for Sujata. After an official field visit, Sujata was rescued by Namaste Children’s House and is now supported by IBSH.
Sujata is doing her 10+2 study along with her other friends from the orphanage and she is also preparing for her final exam so that she can start University.

Lokmaya Marashini

When Lokmaya was six years old, she and her siblings were abandoned by their parents. After a quarrel one night, her father left and did not return. Soon afterward, her mother left as well, leaving Lokmaya and her sister with their grandmother. Their grandmother was eighty-one years old, and lived in a small village on a hillside. She had only a small plot of land and had trouble providing enough food for all of them. Also, because Lokmaya was born missing her right hand, it was more difficult for her to help her grandmother. She also was teased by other children in the village. Eventually, Lokmaya’s grandmother heard about Namaste and came and filled out an application.
Now she is grown up and doing her higher study (10+2) under support of IBSH at Namaste Children’s Hosue in Pokhara. She is a very hardworking and strong girl who wants to be a teacher in the future and to help poor children.

Durga Bhandari

Durga came from an extraordinarily poverty-stricken home. There was little food to eat and few resources for a healthy life. After his mother died, the situation became much worse. Durga’s father was very sick with cancer and was not able to work. There was no food, and Durga was forced to go into the streets to beg. It was painful to see such a small child struggling for survival. Villagers of Durga submitted an application to rescue him and support to the Children Welfare Board. He was rescued by Namaste Children’s House.
He is currently staying at the orphanage and doing his class 11. He is a very hardworking and kind hearted person. He always gives 100% towards his studies.

Sarmila Basnet

Sarmilla is from Simpani village, which is part of the Lamjung district in Nepal. Her father left her mother when Sarmilla was just a baby. His whereabouts are still unknown. A year or so later, her mother eloped with a bus driver and left Sarmilla to be raised by her grandparents. There were eight people living in the house besides Sarmilla, and her grandfather’s small salary was not able to support the family properly. After an application from her grandparents and local police office, Sarmila was rescued by Namaste Children’s House.
Sarmila is doing her +2 study and now preparing for final exam so that she can attend University. She will be supported under IBSH fully for her University study.

Sushila Pariyar

There were four young children living with their father who was sick with heart disease and debilitated by alcoholism. Their mother had passed away from stomach cancer five months after giving birth to her eighteenth child, Mangali. Only nine of the eighteen children are still living, and most of them had left home to find work or to beg in the streets. The children were badly neglected and very malnourished. Their filthy clothes hung off of their bodies. All that was in their barren home was a pot to cook in, but no food to put into it. Mangali, who was only six months old, was being cared for by a villager, but she was too poor to continue to care for her. Upon seeing the extreme condition of the home, Namaste Children’s House decided to rescue the two youngest children Sushila and her six month old sister Mangali.
Sushila is currently doing her higher study under the support of IBSH at Namaste Children’s House. She is hardworking and sincere towards her study and future. We are very hopeful that she will complete her studies with good marks, and will progress to University.

Krishna Thami

Krishna Thami was lucky to be found alive after his whole village was devastated by a land-slide. He was found alive after being buried for over twenty-four hours. His mother was the only other member of his family to survive. However, she suffered significant injuries and has never completely been able to recover. Since she was incapable of caring for her son, Namaste Children’s House decided to intervene and to bring Krishna into the orphanage.
Krishan is very hardworking and very sincere boy. He is currently doing his higher study with the support of IBSH. He is going to finish his higher study and progress to University under the full support of IBSH. He has always dreamt of going back to his village and serving his community.

Deepak Pariyar

Deepak was living with and working for a blind man after his mother had passed away from stomach cancer five months after giving birth to her eighteenth child, Mangali. Only nine of the eighteen children were still living, and most of them had left home to find work or to beg in the streets and Deepak was among them. Deepak had only a few clothes, which were very dirty, and he did not get enough to eat and did not go to school. His other siblings were scattered over Chitwan, also working to survive. Namaste Children’s House rescued him together with his two sisters, Mangali and Sushila.
Deepak is a very hardworking and sincere boy who loves his sisters dearly. He is now completing his higher study under the support of IBSH and preparing to go to University after his final exam.

Parbati Maghi

Parbati comes from a very remote village where she was living in a miserable situation. Her father had been a fisherman (Majhi, her last name, means fisherman) and died in an accident while fishing in a river. Her mother remarried sometime later and her brothers left the village to find work. Parbati went to live with her uncles, who were also fisherman. They were poor and had little money to support Parbati. She was neglected, did not go to school, and slept by a fire at night because she did not have enough clothing to keep warm. Eventually a neighbour, who worked for a social organization called INSEC, took notice of young Parbati’s difficulties and recommended to Namaste Children’s House to support her.
Parbati is a very shy but very talented and hardworking girl who is a role model for younger children at the orphanage. She is now doing her 10+2 study with the support of IBSH. She is also preparing to start University as soon as she passes her final exam.

Tanzania

Mary Mariah

Mary Mariah is studying at Tumaini University in Iringa, Tanzania. She is in her final year of her physcology and counseling degree. In the future, Mary hopes to work with children and counsel them through health and other related issues.

Carista

Vainess

Vainess is 22 years old and studies at Mzumber University in Morogoro, Tanzania. She is in the final year of her law degree. Her passion for law is immerse and she takes every opportunity that she can to study including completing research at the courts in her holidays.